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Mike Johnson: “Veterans don't get their health care services, suicide…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Joins CNN's The Source with Kaitlan Collins

Published | Video Starts at 04:39

And what that means, everybody needs to understand real pain for real Americans. What does that mean? It means Women Infants and Children do not get their nutrition programs. That is not funded anymore. Veterans don't get their health care services, suicide prevention and other very important things that are very timely. You have low income persons who are Medicaid Medicare recipients who are receiving care at home. Those programs are now lapsed. They will not be funded. Yeah, you're making a point about what. (04:39–04:44)

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Asserts that a government shutdown would halt funding for veterans' health care and suicide prevention services.

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